Searching for Enough Quotes

“When you’re waiting, you’re not doing nothing. You’re doing the most important something there is. You’re allowing your soul to grow up. If you can’t be still and wait, you can’t become what God created you to be.”
― Tyler Staton, Searching for Enough: The High-Wire Walk Between Doubt and Faith

“Jesus’ resurrection released hope, not to cheapen life in this world, but to dignify it. To believe in the resurrection is to place the full weight of my hope in the “story of Jesus.” It is to acknowledge that at the center of the harsh reality of life, there is a supernatural gap that cannot be closed by my natural means.”
― Tyler Staton, Searching for Enough: The High-Wire Walk Between Doubt and Faith

“Distraction is fast food. It doesn’t nourish us, but it does work for deferring hunger.”
― Tyler Staton, Searching for Enough: The High-Wire Walk Between Doubt and Faith

“Boredom is a sentiment of disconnectedness . . .To be bored, therefore, does not mean that we have nothing to do, but that we question the value of the things we are so busy doing. The great paradox of our time is that many of us are busy and bored at the same time . . . In short, while our lives are full, we feel unfulfilled.”
― Tyler Staton, Searching for Enough: The High-Wire Walk Between Doubt and Faith

“Any human being who has ever taken a long, hard, honest look at their own heart reaches the same conclusion: even our noblest acts are shaded by selfish”
― Tyler Staton, Searching for Enough: The High-Wire Walk Between Doubt and Faith

“It’s all the same to him, so whichever you prefer.”
― Tyler Staton, Searching for Enough: The High-Wire Walk Between Doubt and Faith

“Beliefs tend to live in the background of our lives. Knowing kicks the door down and confronts us.”
― Tyler Staton, Searching for Enough: The High-Wire Walk Between Doubt and Faith